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[Ohio, Clinton County] Reply of Mark Haynes of Richmond, Ind. To the U.G.R.R. Circular.
'Richmond, Ind.,
Sept. 12, 1892.
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Mr. Siebert, f J/^^,..^^"
A ^"" Dear Sir:-
Just arrived home after an absence of two weeks and found your letter awaiting my arrival and I hastened to reply. In the first place, 1 know or remember little about the Underground R. R. and its stations. I was but a boy and no doubt Valentine Nicholson could tell you much more than I but there are a few incidents connect¬ ed with what little I do know that might add a little to the history you are getting up. I think it was from 1843 to 1847 that it was in full blast, and the first station in my. >- ^ > recollection after leaving the Ohio river was Martinsville, Ohio, and Aaron Betts , an old Quaker kept that station; then ,'
to Wilmington, and Thomas Hibben, a dry goods merchant kept that station, then Oakland came next and in that locality there were several stations, but i cannot name them or tell >
you who kept them. Abram Allen, Dr. Brooke, and Wright Haynes,
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my father, and you can imagine these men were on hand! always and ready to help the fugitive and were called Black Abolition¬ ists. 'He lived on a farm and had plenty of room and in the

[Ohio, Clinton County] Reply of Mark Haynes of Richmond, Ind. To the U.G.R.R. Circular.
'Richmond, Ind.,
Sept. 12, 1892.
P.^
r
Mr. Siebert, f J/^^,..^^"
A ^"" Dear Sir:-
Just arrived home after an absence of two weeks and found your letter awaiting my arrival and I hastened to reply. In the first place, 1 know or remember little about the Underground R. R. and its stations. I was but a boy and no doubt Valentine Nicholson could tell you much more than I but there are a few incidents connect¬ ed with what little I do know that might add a little to the history you are getting up. I think it was from 1843 to 1847 that it was in full blast, and the first station in my. >- ^ > recollection after leaving the Ohio river was Martinsville, Ohio, and Aaron Betts , an old Quaker kept that station; then ,'
to Wilmington, and Thomas Hibben, a dry goods merchant kept that station, then Oakland came next and in that locality there were several stations, but i cannot name them or tell >
you who kept them. Abram Allen, Dr. Brooke, and Wright Haynes,
« ' (J
my father, and you can imagine these men were on hand! always and ready to help the fugitive and were called Black Abolition¬ ists. 'He lived on a farm and had plenty of room and in the